Changes in the tonic activity of wrist extensor motor units induced by stimulating antagonistic group I afferents in humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 21-32

  Suehiro, Masatsugu ^a   Hirano, Toru ^a   Mihara, Keiji ^a   Shindo, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flexor group I afferents; Human; Tonic activity; Wrist extensor motor units

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WRIST;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; WRIST;

EID: 0034783640     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210100821     Document Type: Article

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